Friday Funnies

Survivor Ratings and CIA Torture

Well, just two shorts weeks after all the controversy surrounding the "segregated" Survivor season all the fun is over. They are now mixed tribes again. Which proves my point...Germans love David Hasselhoff! Wait , no ...I mean, TV is all about the $$$. CBS cashed in on all that publicity and still ended up not really doing anything that controversial. Give the producer a raise! "Survivor: Cook Islands," CBS, 17.43 million viewers."

On another Survivor related note, I was reading this article that sort of light heartedly describes one of the challenges as well "better designed to get prisoners of war to talk", and it made me think. We (well some of us anyway), are such ninnies. The challaenge was "Each person strapped on a 15 pound weight, and trudged through knee-deep water around a course, with one tribe trying to catch the other. For any person who dropped out, a teammate had to carry their weight." and it occured to me. That is worse than any torture we put terror detainies through and there are a lot of other things in life that are as well. I have compiled a short list for your entertainment pleasure:

1. Driving in L.A. Rush Hour Traffic
2. Waking up every 2 hours during the night for a month straight to a crying baby (then having to breast feed it)
3. An IRS Audit
4. Standing in line for anything at the DMV
5. Listening to a Ted Kennedy Speech on the Senate Floor (OK maybe if your a Republican)
6. Property Taxes

...and I am sure I could think or more if I had the time. But the point is we really need to wake up as a country if we are electing people to office that want to give Terrorists the sames rights that we have to fair treatment and a jury trial. The argument that our soldiers will be mistreated if we use harsh tecniques just does not fly when you consider that they are already being treated poorly right now, without any change or increase/decrease in the amount of prisoner coersion. I think the last soldier of ours that got caught was shot through the head, had his throat slashed and then had his genitals cut off. Water boarding doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me after hearing that...You??

Peaceful islam at it again

From Michelle Malkin. I have been really busy the last two days, sorry!

Read the articles that got their writers sentenced to death.

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Weird Website Wednesday

Todays offering is for all of you Cat Lovers out there. Yes we've all seen the cute cuddly Kitty pictures that come in chain e-mails and been subject to a full memory card of feline photos from an aunt or girlfriend. But these are different... Click back and enjoy, Bum, BuM, BBBUUUMMM!!

My Cat Hates You!

BAD KITTY!

BeAFreakinUtiful!

I love Condi! She just kicked the sh*t out of any attempt at making that classified report released yesterday an election issue with this statement:

Asked about recently leaked internal U.S. intelligence estimates that claimed the Iraq war was fueling terrorist recruiting, Rice said: "Now that we're fighting back, of course they are fighting back, too."

"I find it just extraordinary that the argument is, all right, so they're using the fact they're being challenged in the Middle East and challenged in Iraq to recruit, therefore you've made the war on terrorism worse.

"It's as if we were in a good place on Sept. 11. Clearly, we weren't," she added.

"These are people who want to fight against us, and they're going to find a reason. And yes, they will recruit, but it doesn't mean you stop pursuing strategies that are ultimately going to stop them," Rice said.

Finally, someone in the Bush White House got a pair and said what really needed to be said all along. Even before this they have been accused numerous times of causing terrorism by our efforts in the Mid-East. As if they (terrorists) would all just stop hating us if we left them alone. GO Condi!

Here is the full article from the NY Post:

Condi Tells It Like It Is

23 Ways to be a good Democrat in 2006

I know many of you will take this as a Right Wing jab, but I don't post this to instigate, I post this to allow you an opportunity(if you have not already)to investigate these things and see whether or not they are true. If you are an honest person and truly seeking to stand for the convictions you believe the Democratic party is all about, then this should be very educational. In the end though it is more tounge in cheek than anything, and I am sure that Democrats could make a list just as long of things like this that they believe to be true of Republicans. So, can you handle the "reflection"?

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity, and be willing to ignore all evidence to the contrary.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than US nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists. Or ANY Nuclear technology in the hands of a rouge nation like Iran or North Korea.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that traditional gender roles are artificial but alternative gender roles and being homosexual are natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding and has very little to do with Homosexuality and rampant IV drug use.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex and sexuality.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion Of The Christ for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Thomas Edison and A.G. Bell.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person (Most of the time).

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liars, drug addicts and sex offenders belong in counseling and are elligeble to hold government office.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades and art expos displaying drag, transvestites, and beastiality should be constitutionally protected, but manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

2o. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

21. You have to believe that it's okay to give Federal workers Christmas Day off, but it's not okay to say "Merry Christmas" unless your put an X where the Christ used to be.

22. You have to believe that the basic human rights of one terrorist murderer are as or more important than stopping the next 9/11 from happening.

23. You have to believe that freedom of the press trumps our National Security

Are videotaped beheadings covered by Geneva?

Ann Coulter is to Liberal Idiocy as a 45 caliber slug is to Paper Mache

"As McCain might put it, I hold no brief for al-Qaida, but what would better protect Americans they take prisoner than if America went whole hog and became an Islamic republic? On the plus side, we can finally put Rosie O'Donnell in a burka. "

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Friday Funnies

Too Little Too Late

...for the left to be outraged at the words of Ahmandinejad or Chavez. Our thanks to the distinguished Senator from New York Charlie Rangel and House Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi for speaking out and being the only ones to do so publically, but sorry Charlie! You can't just scoop the sh*t back into the horse! Hugo and Maqmood are getting their vitriol straight from the Moveon.org DNC playbook. Democrats have been saying much worse things about Bush for the last 5 years loud enough for the entire planet to hear them. The message is loud and clear from the democratic party, "We do not respect nor do we regard our own chief of state". So let me ask Nancy and Charlie a question... If you don't respect him, why should anyone else? For months/years the loudest (left leaning) media voices in our country have been lambasting everything from the way George Bush got elected, to his foreign and domestic policy, to his vacation time, to his faith and the list goes on. What do we expect the rest of the world to think? We are the standard for the civilized world and how we present ourselves will determine the way the rest of the world percieves us, including our President. You can't just say,

"If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not."

as Charlie Rangel did, and have that be good enough. Though I agree with Pelosi and Rangel that he should be unequivocallyand Nationaly shat upon for standing up at the UN General Assembly and saying such things, this should be a wake up call for the liberal wing of the DNC. News Flash!! They think its ok to say those things because you have made it acceptable to do so. You have made it acceptable to infer that our president is a moron and a lying, power hungry criminal. They don't just pull this stuff out of the air, they hear it straight from your mouths!!

Bush Is Stupid

Bush Is A War Crimnal

Bush Stole The Election

Bush Is A Racist

"Constructive" Democratic Criticism

DNC Chairman Insults "Chief Of State"

Bush Is A Liar

Bush Is Evil

Bush Is A Nazi

So thanks Nancy, Charlie...but no thanks unless you are willing to apply that standard to your own party and wake up to the fact that you are more the cause than the solution!

Gozer The Venezuelean?

Hat Tip LLama Butchers for pointing this out. Hugo Chavez is in fact a body double for the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man of Ghostbusters fame. See below photo comparison:

The resemblence is uncanny!!

Weird Website Wednesday

Ok, today offering is Strawberry Pop-Tart blow torches. Yes, what everyone one of you have wondered, you can now find out about that tasty morning snack! Click on the Link to view the site...

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torch

Ahmadinejad: Man of "Peace"

Great Post on Malkin's Site about the UN Speech...:

Reform, justice, peace, virtue, dignity, brotherhood,the Prophet Moses, the Prophet Jesus, the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
A softer, gentler Ahmadinejad. One can only imagine how the Tehran focus groups responded to early drafts.

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Things That Make Tim Go Hmmmm?

Fox News Channel is my favorite news station for a variety of reasons and I watch frequently. Thusly I have noticed a disturbing trend of discrimination toward female news corresspondents with, simple, "normal" last names. Or at the very least an affinity for women anchors with peculiar and/or long, last names. I have no opinion on the matter other than to say it is curious and worthy of further scrutiny. I wonder if at its inception the two top executives at Fox had a bet or something. See the proof of my claim below:

Alisyn Camerota - Fox News anchor and host of Fox and Friends

Lis Weihl - Fox News anchor

Kimberly Guilfoile - Fox News anchor

Molly Henneberg - Fox News anchor

Carol Iovanna - Fox News anchor

Laurie Dhue - Fox News anchor

Martha MacCallum - Fox News anchor

Uma Pemmaraju - Fox News anchor

Anita Vogel - Fox News anchor

Donna Fiducia - Fox News anchor

Kiran Chetry - Fox News anchor

Rudi Bakhtiar - Fox News anchor

Harris Faulkner - Fox News anchor

Brenda Buttner - Fox News anchor (Not particularly complicated but I threw it in for fun anyway)

...and Last but certainly not least Greta Van Susteren - Host of On The Record

You may think I have too much time on my hands or watch way too much news, but I have waited a long time to bring this information to light.

Anchor names... Right Wing Conspiracy or Simple Coincidence? We report, you decide!!

Secret CIA Torture Techniques Leaked

Via STACLU we learn of the horrible torture techniques the CIA have been using to get information from Islamic Nazi killer suspects.

Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects. Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer, Scott Horton,

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Islam Rageometer and other picture postcards

Hat Tip to Wuzzadem and Malkin for this awesome link

I am going to use it because it makes my point and the point of every other sane person on earth who understands...

It is time for this nonsense to stop. When will decent people stand up once and for all and tell these ridiculous people ENOUGH!!!

The idea seems to be escaping all but a very few that you can't call yourself a peaceful religon and then when someone else challenges that statement, threaten to behead them. My brain hurts just considering the moronic iggnorance it would take to believe such a thing. Look, lets forget about why they do it because that really does not matter right now. The problem is what they do. Greater Islam cannot continue to react like a mass of spoiled, petulant children everytime somebody huuts deaw wittle feewings and then turn around and demand the respect of the world. The very idea that there is any justification or lack of exposure of these kind of acts for what they are is sureal. We are talking about educated, well rounded individuals who just let this mess continue unchecked. To my knowledge not even one country (including the US) has formaly stood up and said unequivocaly, "We wil not tolerate your stupid religous tantrums any longer". "Stop now or you won't be able to sit down for a week".

Message to Muslims: My 2 year old called, she wants her self control back...

Earlier post with the same point

Miss England Has The Answer

Also from Wuzzadem - This is freakin' hillarious: Gitmo Terro-Gator
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Update: 3:52pm - Maybe This will wake the catholics up a bit?

Al Queda in Iraq gets its popey groove on

Religon Of Pieces burns Pope in Efigy

Friday Funnies

Two Important Bills before Congress

Hat Tip to STACLU for all the hard work in combatting those who would take away our religous freedom.

Good News: PERA goes to the House floor!

As you may or may not have heard, the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA), which would curb the likes of the ACLU from obtaining taxpayer money in the event of adverse rulings regarding the removal of religious symbols and plaques of the Commandments, passed by voice vote out of the House Judiciary Committee and now moves to the floor for a full House vote.

Needless to say, the ACLU and Americans (Dis) United (AU) are not happy about this. You can read their press releases by clicking here and here.

TAKE ACTION

Since Congress is set to adjourn for the year at the end of this month, we urgently need you to contact House Speaker Dennis Hastert to schedule a vote on this bill. His phone number in Washington is (202) 225-2976 and his fax is (202) 225-0697. His number in Illinois is (630) 406-1114 and his fax is (630) 406-1808. Please be respectful when you call or fax and urge him to allow House Bill 2679 for a vote.

More info on Speaker Hastert can be obtained by clicking here.

The companion bill, Senate Bill 3696, in the U.S. Senate is sponsored by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback and is in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unlike the House Judiciary Committee in which passage sailed thru without dissent, the Senate Judiciary Committee is where we must raise our voices since Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, according to Rees Lloyd of the American Legion, is said to oppose the legislation.

Please contact Sen. Specter to allow a vote in committee and to support SB 3696. His Washington phone is (202) 224-4254 and his fax is (202) 228-1229. His Philadelphia office phone is (215) 597-7200 and the fax is (215) 597-0406.

More info on Sen. Specter can be obtained by clicking here.

Of course, we need you to call or fax your Congressmen and women to urge them to vote YES on HB 2679 and your two U.S. senators to vote YES on SB 3696. If possible, please ask the aide you reach how their lawmaker would vote and to have that lawmaker release a statement as to their position.

If you do not know who your elected officials are, click here.

If you wish, our friends at the American Legion has set up their own Action Alert page which contains information and talking points which you are free to use when you call your Congressional and senatorial leaders. There is also a section to report the results of your calls. If you do use these features, let us know how they worked out for you.

Hezbollah Uses Jedi Mind Trick

Amnesty accused Hezbollah of possible war crimes during the 34 day war between it and Israel.The terror group's representatives responded saying,

"We do not deny that we have bombarded Israeli cities, settlements and infrastructure. But this was always a reaction," he told Al-Jazeera television. "It was a natural reaction. When a state is invaded, it must defend itself."

It was not clear Thursday what Fadlallah meant by the word "state" since by its own admission Hezbollah represents no state or specific entity to begin with. It was also not clear if the terrorist leader was including this obvious crime against humanity, or this one when he eluded to "reacting" to invasion.

Hassan Fadlallah said he learned the Jedi Mind Trick from watching Star Wars and wonders how long it will keep working on the rest of the world before someone catches on...

Too Bad So Sad!

Well it look like its finally the end for Stuart Smalley Radio or "Air America" for those born after 1983. Stop The ACLU and Malkin have a good round up including from Malkin every step on their way to this inevitable demise.

Air America to File for Bankruptcy

Air America: The end

He wasn't good enough or smart enough, and gosh darn it people just really didn't like him!

Weird Website Wednesday

This one I don't quite know how to describe. It is a tribute to Bruce Lee of sorts but extremely strange and kinda cool actually. Its' called "I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives". If you are now or ever have been a fan of the undisputed king of martial arts then check this site out.

Just Oozing Class

I am always amazed at the class of those entertainers with BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).
I mean they are supposedly so far above all of us rednecks intelectually and morally right? It seems as though the rule is that the above is true until something disagreeable happens to them or if they just plain don't like you. As you can see below, class goes out the window:

Sean Penn calls Bush Dumb Beelzebub

Dixie Chick Maines Calls Bush a DumbF**k

Guys I want my kids to grow up to be just like you! NOT

Spoiled 9/11 Leftover: Public School Teaches 9/11 Through Saudi Eyes

Another butt kicking Conservative Blond... Check out Debbie's post on the "tolerance" in our public schools.

In case there was any doubt why our public schools are turning out dummies--junior leftists, who are dummies--here's one of the reasons.

Yesterday, while the rest of us were remember that Islamic terrorists--15 of 19 of were came from

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All You Need to Know About the Pentagon Attack

...you can find out from the people who saw it. Normally I would not blog something like this but given the amount of idiots out there claiming that a cruise missle or single engine drone or some other such thing hit the Pentagon, I thought it neccessary. Enjoy

		A list of witness at or near to the Pentagon, September 11th, 2001 collated from reports to be found online:
		• Anon, from the Navy Annex. As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to Pentagon. The aircraft was moving fast, at what I could only be estimate as between 250 to 300 knots. All in all, I probably only had the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3 seconds. The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct course for the Pentagon. It was "clean", in as much as, there were no flaps applied and no apparent landing gear deployed. He was slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd just "jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside of the building to the right of the helo, tower and fire vehicle around corridor 5. http://www.ournetfamily.com/WarOnTerror/emails/pentagonwitness.html
		• Donald "Tim" Timmerman, a 36 year old resident of Eppington Drive, to the south of the Pentagon across Interstate 395, is a navy pilot and a photographer. "I was looking out the window; I live on the 16th floor, overlooking the Pentagon, in a corner apartment, so I have quite a panorama. And being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet engine was way too loud. I looked out to the southwest, and it came right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as it went by the Sheraton Hotel, the pilot added power to the engines. I heard it pull up a little bit more, and then I lost it behind a building. And then it came out and I saw it hit right in front of -- it didn't appear to crash into the building; most of the energy was dissipated in hitting the ground, but I saw the nose break up, I saw the wings fly forward, and then the conflagration engulfed everything in flames. It was horrible. What can you tell us about the plane itself? It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question. You say that it was a Boeing, and you say it was a 757 or 767? 7-5-7. 757, which, of course.. American Airlines. American Airlines, one of the new generation of jets. Right. It was so close to me it was like looking out my window and looking at a helicopter. It was just right there. . . http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/bn.32.html . . A CNN on-the-sight reporter was interviewed by a fellow fromCNN : You got a close-up look at the damage, didn't you? Yes, I was right next to the building. And what did you see? I saw a big, gaping hole and I could see pieces of the plane inside. Earlier, an eye-witness told us the plane didn't crash into the building. Well, I don't know what it looked like from where he was, but I looked right inside the hole and I know it crashed into the building. http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/spin.htm
		• Christopher Munsey, Navy Times reporter , was en route to work. ". . I couldn’t believe what I was now seeing to my right: A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon, just hundreds of yards away. The plane, with red and blue markings, hurtled by and within moments exploded in a ground-shaking “whoomp,” http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-467181.php
		• John O’Keefe, 25-year-old Northern Virginia commuter, managing editor of Influence, an American Lawyer Media publication about lobbying was "not much more than a football field away" on “. saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet,” “It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was heading. http://www.nylawyer.com/news/01/09/091201l.html
		• Joel Sucherman, USAToday.com Multimedia Editor, saw it all: an American Airlines jetliner fly left to right across his field of vision as he commuted to work Tuesday morning. It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later and before he could see if the landing gear was down or any of the horror- struck faces inside, the plane slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon 100 yards away. "My first thought was he's not going to make it across the river to National Airport. But whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction. It was coming in at a high rate of speed, but not at a steep angle--almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its target and staying dead on course." http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D704%2526a%253D15161,00.asp "it came screaming across the highway, route 110" Was it a commercial jet? Do you know how many engines? "I did not see the engines, I saw the body and the tail; it was a silver jet with the markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet, it was not a commercial, excuse me, a business jet, it was not a lear jet, it was a bigger plane than that.".
		• Omar Campo, a Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side of the road when the plane flew over his head. "It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane, " Mr Campo said. "I was cutting the grass and it came in screaming over my head.
		A woman driver wanting to exit from Interstate 395 saw "a commercial plane that came in and was coming too fast and too low amnd the next thing we saw was it go down below the side of the road and we just saw the fire.." http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/day.video.09.html
		Brig. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn, deputy director of military support to civil authorities. was returning to the Pentagon Sept. 11 returned urgently from a meeting, north along Interstate 395 . While exiting the ramp to the Pentagon he"was scanning the air. There wasn't anything in the air, except for one airplane, and it looked like it was loitering over Georgetown, in a high, left-hand bank," he said. "That may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that (flight) pattern." http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/pentagon.terrorism He pulled his car over and sprinted toward the gaping, flaming hole “It took me four to five minutes to get there,” http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/091401kp1.htm http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Sep2001/a20010919fireheroes.html
		Mark Bright, was the first security officer to arrive at the scene , having actually seen the plane hit the building while manning the guard booth at the Mall Entrance. "I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area," "I knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." He said he heard the plane "power-up" just before it struck the Pentagon. http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/6_39/local_news/10797-1.html
		Alan Wallace, a 55 year old Fort Myer firefighter was standing with fellow firefighter Mark Skipper, about 200 feet away from the catastrophe, standing outside their fire station. They bith suffered first and second degree burns. http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp Wallace described a white airplane with orange and blue trim, heading almost straight at them. "When I felt the fire, I hit the ground," http://detnews.com/2001/nation/0109/11/nation-291261.htm "I just happened to look up and see the plane. It was about 200 yards away, and was coming in low and fast. I told Mark that we needed to get the hell out of there." Dennis Young, a third fireman at the scene, but inside the fire house, had been one of the first to respond when a Canadian C-130 crashed near Fairbanks, Alaska in 1989. "I knew from past experience that it was a plane crash." www.iaff.org/across/news/archives/102401local.html
		At a media briefing, Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clark told the story of Capt. Lincoln Liebner, who was outside the Pentagon when the blast took place. He rushed into the building to help. His hands were burned, and after he was taken away to a hospital for treatment, he returned later in the day to do more.
		• Captain Lincoln Liebner, was parking his car at the moment of attack: 'I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low,' said Army Captain Lincoln Liebner. 'We got one guy out of the fire truck cab,' he said, adding he could hear people crying inside the wreckage. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/html/webspecial/WTC/wtcnews15.html "I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low," "My first thought was I've never seen one that high. Before it hit I realised what was happening, Captain Liebner says the aircraft struck a helicopter on the helipad, setting fire to a fire truck. We got one guy out of the cab," he said, adding he could hear people crying inside the wreckage. Captain Liebner, who had cuts on his hands from the debris, says he has been parking his car in the car park when the crash occurred."" http://abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010911230953_1.htm French version: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/monde/0109/mon_101090013337.html
		• Alfred S. Regnery, president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., a sister company of Human Events saw ". . a jetliner, apparently at full throttle and not more than a couple of hundred yards above the ground, screamed overhead." http://www.humanevents.org/articles/09-17-01/regnery.html
		• Mike Walter, 46, USA Today reporter, said "I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know, typical rush-hour -- it had ground to a standstill. I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't add up, it's really low.' And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon." http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/attack.in.their.words
		Sergeant Maurice L. Bease had worked around Marine aviation long enough to know what a fly-by was, and it sounded like one as he stood outside his office near the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Turning around expecting to see a fighter jet fly over, he saw only a split-second glimpse of a white commercial airliner streaking low toward the building, and him! He did not even have time to duck before it plowed into the side of the Pentagon around the corner and about 200 yards from where he stood. Report by Maj Fred H. Allison, USMCR (Ret): http://www.mca-marines.org/Leatherneck/nov01pentagonarch.htm
		• Afework Hagos, 26, of Arlington, is a computer programmer, a consultant for Nextel. On his way to work he was stuck in a traffic jam on Columbia Pike, near the Pentagon when the plane flew over. "There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in." http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,550486,00.html
		. He saw a plane flying very low and close to nearby buildings. "I thought something was coming down on me. I know this plane is going to crash. I've never seen a plane like this so low." He said he looked at it and saw American Airline insignia and when it made impact with the Pentagon initially he saw smoke, then flames. http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html
		Dave Winslow, AP Radio Reporter lives across the street. He saw."the tail of a large airliner ." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4254882,00.html
		Eugenio Hernandez, an AP video journalist, was driving by the Pentagon and saw the plane crashing. He borrowed a tourist's video camera began shooting. http://www.apbroadcast.com/AP+Broadcast/about+us/miscellaneous/in+the+news.htm
		Christine Peterson, ’73 found herself in the thick of last month’s terrorist tragedy, and submitted this report: ". . I was at a complete stop on the road in front of the helipad at the Pentagon; what I had thought would be a shortcut was as slow as the other routes I had taken that morning. I looked idly out my window to the left -- and saw a plane flying so low I said, “holy cow, that plane is going to hit my car” (not my actual words). The car shook as the plane flew over. It was so close that I could read the numbers under the wing." http://www.naualumni.com/News/News.cfm?ID=613&c=4
		Fred Gaskins, was driving to his job as a national editor at USA TODAY near the Pentagon when the plane passed about 150 feet overhead. "(The plane) was flying fast and low and the Pentagon was the obvious target, It was flying very smoothly and calmly, without any hint that anything was wrong." • Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of Turkey, saw the jetliner bank slightly. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/11/attack-usat.htm
		• Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co. was on the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395. "I was right underneath the plane. I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles. It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." Steve Patterson, is a graphics artist who works at home.in a 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City. While watching events unfold on TV he saw a silver commuter jet fly past his window about 150 yards away, approaching from the west about 20 feet off the ground, He said it appeared to him that a commuter jet which appeared to hold about eight to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming in for a landing on a nonexistent runway. The plane, which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet, flew over Arlington cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I-395. "at a frightening rate .‚.‚. just slicing into that building." He saw bright orange flames shoot out the back of the building. John Damoose, a Travis City, Mich. native who was in a meeting said "everybody got nervous. .‚.‚. We didn't know whether to stay inside or go outside. The thing with terrorist attacks is that you don't know what is the next thing that will happen." He said the worst part was leaving the Pentagon and walking along Fort Meyer Drive, a bike trail, "you could see pieces of the plane." http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html
		Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington national Cemetery. McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20 feet over his car, as he waited on the northbound side of Washington Boulevard. "I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our cars." "The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car. http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_39/local_news/10772-1.html http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Pentagon_crash_eyewitness_comforted_victims.html
		Allen Cleveland of Woodbridge Virginia looked out from a Metro train going to National Airport, to see a jet heading down toward the Pentagon. "I thought, 'There's no landing strip on that side of the subway tracks,' " Before he could process that thought, he saw "a huge mushroom cloud. A lady staThe lady next to me was in absolute hysterics." " . . a silver pasenger jet, mid sized" http://mfile.akamai.com/920/rm/thepost.download.akamai.com/920/nation/091101-5s.ram http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170005.html
		Meseidy Rodriguez confirms "it was a mid size plane".
		Oscar Martinez ``.. saw a big jet flying close to the building coming at full speed. There was a big noise when it hit the building,'' said , who witnessed the attack. http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/11_APdc.html
		Ron Turner, the Navy’s deputy chief information officer, was standing at a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery: “There was a huge fireball, followed by the [usual] black cloud of a fuel burn.” “It reminded me of being back in Vietnam, watching Tan Son Nhut Air Base burn.” http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/091301j3.htm
		ARFF fire Crews reported fires on every floor of the "D" and "E" rings. The aircraft had penetrated all the way to the "C" ring. "The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear. http://www.nfpa.org/NFPAJournal/OnlineExclusive/Exclusive_11_01_01/exclusive_11.01.01.asp
		Ken Ford, a State Department employee, watched from the 15th floor of the State Department Annex,just across the Potomac River from the Pentagon. We were watching the airport through binoculars, Ford said, referring to Reagan National Airport, a short distance away.The plane was a two-engine turbo prop that flew up the river from National. Then it turned back toward the Pentagon.We thought it had been waved off and then it hit the building. Daniel and Cynthia McAdams said they were sitting in their kitchen drinking coffee in their third-floor condominium in Arlington,Va.,just two miles from the Pentagon when they heard a plane fly directly over head around 9:45 a.m. It was unusually loud and low. http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2001/09/pdf/09112001EXTRA2.pdf http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0912/wor5.htm
		Steve Riskus, steveriskus@aol.com wrote: I took these pictures less then 1 minutes after I watched the american airlines 757 airplane crash into the pentagon on september 11 2001. I left shortly after the picture were taken in fear of further attacks. Feel free to contact me anytime if you have questions about my pictures. I did acctually see the plane impact the building. http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror/crashthumbnails.html
		Mickey Bell, an electrical contractor's foreman was working to renovate the second and third floors. Outside, and less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the plane, he was very nearly struck by one of the wings as they sped by him. He had just left the project trailer (that exploded) when he heard a loud noise. The next thing he recalled was picking himself off the floor, where he had been thrown by the blast. He got into his truck, parked in the trailer compound, and sped away. Plastic and rivets from an airplane were later found imbedded in its sheet metal http://www.necanet.org/whats_new/report.cfm?ID=1003: http://www.ecmag.com/industrynews/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&art_id=1115 "We went out to look at his truck and the truckbed was filled with all kinds of debris that must have come from the blast. He's one really lucky guy,"
		Wayne T. Day, President of ' Kirlin', Rockville MD, says "We had one guy who was standing, looking out the window and saw the plane when it was coming in. He was in front of one of the blast- resistant windows," http://www.designbuildmag.com/oct2001/pentagon1001.asp
		Steve Snaman, manager of the datacom division for Walker Seals, watched from Fort McNair (across the river) as the jetliner came in low at full throttle, banked left and smashed into the wall of the Pentagon. http://www.ecmag.com/industrynews/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&art_id=1117
		Compiled impartially, ( with compliments especially to Steve Riskus ) by UK resident Ron Harvey, last updated March 2002,

Remember This!!

NOT For The Squemish... Six Meat Buffet has the startling video shot by an amature of people jumping out of windows in Tower 1 after the first plane hit.

Religon Of Peace 9/11 Edition

The 2996 Project - Larry I. Beck

Hat Tip Six Meat Buffet

As part of the 2996 Project, we take the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history to remember Larry I. Beck, mailroom clerk at Cantor Fitzgerald, killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center. Larry was from Baldwin, New York, and was 38 years old when his life was cut short by Saudi missionaries...

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9/11 pledge: "I will not submit"

Michelle Malkin's superb anniversary message to jihadists and Cindy Sheehan's favorite Arabic t-shirt. And, a personal thank you to Michelle, Spencer and Andy for their responses to Ralph Peters rant.

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9/11 Rememberence

...is all I will be blogging today. Plus a few other 9/11 related tidbits. Since every other blog out there has what I am certain are a ton of pictures of the actual attacks I will spare you more. Other than to remind you that our attackers drove three planes into American targets and are trying even as I write these words to come up with a plot that will again succeed the way 2001 did. So first lets look at the spirit of America and remember the victims:
















We were attacked by people who hate us, who hate our way of life, our religon's, our liberty. We find ourselves now at a most unique point in the history of this country where men and women will look back on it and we will be judged. Will we stand in the face of death and evil or will we shrink back in fear and say, "its ok, as long as they don't hurt us", until once again inevitably they do. Fortunately, we have a President who, no matter what his detractors may say about him is commited to standing and fighting. Unlike other world leaders who talk like they want to stop the terrorists then do nothing, our's is singularly committed to fight for as long as it take to get the job done:

We will not waver and we will not shrink back. The most chilling thing is however, that there are those who just ... don't ... get it

So we remember somberly the five years that have passed between then and now and the sacrifices made in the name of our God and country both here and abroad. We are a unique nation among the others of the world, we are "the" example for other countries who aspire to be free republics. What must they think when they look at us and see things like this and this.

We have a responsibility to be accountable for the great freedoms we have here and to not let slip the sacrifice in blood that thousands of great heroic men and women have made so that you and I can live, work and raise families here in America.

I pray for comfort in the lives of the familes who lost loved ones today, for the brave military persons who have lost their lives in the line of fire and for any who would put their job,life, family on the line for something greater than themselves!

I salute You!!!

Pitt-Jolie one less riduculous hyphenated name...

To worry about for the time being. Brad Pitt said today that he and fellow gazillionaire sex symbol Angelina Jolie will not be getting married until the rest of the country (USA) can decide for themselves who they want to marry and do so legally. Implying that he and Jolie are both against restricting marriage to a man and a woman.

"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.

Pu-lease, Just another witty bit (or steaming pile) of moonbattery from our good altruistic friends in Hollywood. According to publisists, Pitt's next move will be to hold his breath and stomp his feet til' he turns blue when and if partial birth abortion ever gets banned. Jolie's people say that she is content just to kick Uncle Sam's ankles and swear a lot.

Friday Funnies

Non-Story is now a Story

The recent flap by Democrats over the so called "inaccuracies" in the new Docu-drama "The Path to 9/11" has done more to feed the controversy over Clinton administration officials actions during the time period leading up to the terror attacks than the actual footage in the series itself would have. It is historically true that innocent people have no need to explain themselves. Though, as of now after their fervent and sometimes, frankly threatening efforts to pressure ABC into changing or editing certain scenes in the upcoming series, the DNC and the Clinton Administration have roused my suspicion (and likely many others) even more as to their actions than if they had just kept quite and accepted their portion of the responsibility for the massive failures at both the Executive and DOD levels that led to the attacks in the first place.

Please take the time to read the letter that prominent Dem senators wrote to ABC Execs. essentialy threatening them with who knows what if the scenes were not deleted or altered. Also, see my earlier post with the first links to yesterdays and todays breaking news on the matter. 9/11's disasterous implications fall equally on both Republicans and Democrats, but I have yet to see or here about one Republican or Bush Admin official denying or refuting any portion of the events depicted in this movie. Hmmmmm?

Dem letter to ABC

ABC Series canned by Dems

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Other Bloggers Chime In:

Little Green Footballs

Malkin's Pissed

Ace Of Spades

Sister Toldjah

News Busters
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Update: 09/08/06 - Well you know when Drudge has 6 links and the headlines about a story, it is officially a story. So my point made, Dems are still today mounting a massive smear campaign against this film and asking that it be severly edited our withdrawn completely from ABC's schedule. Well, if your Uncle Tim was not sure the Dems had something to lose by the truth being told, I am now. I am hoping that Iger gives Bill and his Lackeys the Big Bubba Bird and not only airs it, but airs it in its entirety!

The blogs are all on fire for this today:

Seixon - Now They Get Tough
Malkin - Viewer Discretion Is Advised
Allah - Miserable Failure

A Must Read...NOT

Cindy Sheehan's book hits the shelves 9/19 and is sure to be an instant favorite among liberals, psychotics, the emotionaly disturbed, bi-polar wet nurses and Hugo Chavez. The book is called "Peace Mom" but we decided to have a bit of fun with it... Click on the Pic to take a look at our offering and be sure to leave a comment if you have one to add as well...

MSM "Never Mind!"

This is a classic SNL reference with total significance... Read on!

I watched entirely too much television as a child. I was a big fan of Saturday Night Live and loved the Emily Litella character. For those unfamiliar with Litella, she was played by Gilda Radner and was a little old lady who did commentary on the SNL Weekend Update segment.

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Border Security=Immigrant Legislation

Bill Frist said today that in his view "no comprehensive immigration reform could be passed" in the three weeks congress has left before they begin campaigning for the Nov. Mid-terms. He outlined a sharp division that arose between the Senate who put forward a more all inclusive legislative package and the House which favored a comprehensive bill only after the issue of Border Security has been dealt with first.

Political Opinion Alert: Bill Frist and representatives like Tom Tancredo have it right. There is no immigration reform without border enforcement first. Honestly no matter what side of the "Illegal" issue you come down on, there is no argument about whether or not we should secure our borders. Neither is there any point in giving 12,000,000 non-citizens what amounts to almost complete amnesty before the source of the problem gets handled. In reality there is nothing comprehensive about the senate bill since it does very little if anything at all to address the massive exodus of mexican citizens over our South Western borders. A tough border security bill first to stop the bleeding. Then by all means, treat those already in this country fairly according to our laws and values as americans. Our governments failure to deal with this a decade ago has resulted in this problem being what it is today.

ABC Mini-Series canned by Dems

Democrats this week spoke out in oposition to the airing of a new 9/11 docu-drama analyzing the trail of events that lead to the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3000 Americans in 2001. Their biggest complaint was that there were many inaccuracies and misrepresentations of the events that took place during the Clintoon Presidency. Of course when they had pointed out to them that the series was just as critical of the Bush Administration as of the Clintoon's, a spokesman for the former president responded,

"The difference is, the stuff they show the Bush administration doing actually happened."

Gosh, now who would have figured that??
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Update: 9/7/06 - Clinton Unhinged over Mini-Series Allegations

Bubba Goes Ballistic On ABC

Clinton admin. Assail Docu-Drama
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Update: ABC Partially Caves In To Dem Pressure To Change Certain Scenes

Weird Website Wednesday

Well this one is interesting to say the least. It is called Streetmattress.com and I will let you decipher the content yourself.